Children will take to the roads
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Children will take to the roads

Children will take to the roads According to the rules, a seven-year-old child is already old enough to walk the streets alone. Practice does not always confirm this.

Children will take to the roads

Children often lack experience, which punishes adults, often subconsciously, and respectfully approaches busy streets. According to many experts in the field of road safety, children do not realize the impending danger, it is difficult for them to understand that the car is not able to stop immediately, in a place where the driver may not see them between cars and at traffic lights after dark the headlight will see them only in several tens of meters in front of the hood, often on the threshold of effective braking or already behind it.

Therefore, much depends on the parents, on how they prepare their child for independence on the road. If, walking with a child, we do not pay attention to whether he stops in front of the road and looks around or the road is free, we cannot expect him to do this when he walks alone, without adult supervision. Approaching the intersection, let the child look around and say whether it is possible to pass, and not the parents. In such a situation, they can be corrected, prevented from leaving the road at the wrong time and in an unauthorized place. When he is alone, he will do what he thinks is right.

Soon, when the children leave for school, it will be gray or dark outside. Later, a child appears in the headlights. According to the rules, children under 15 years of age, when moving outside settlements, must have reflective elements. In practice, I have not heard that someone was punished for the lack of glare. In fact, it is better to wear reflectors in settlements where the lights do not always shine as they should.

In recent years, we have had communicative education in schools. This is a step, but not always XNUMX% effective. It is possible that another program for children will appear in the near future. "Safety for All", which Renault is promoting in a number of European countries, can be considered an official instrument of the Ministry of National Education. Programs provide the necessary knowledge, but they are not a substitute for nurturing the right habits in a child, and no one can do it for parents.

The material was created in cooperation with the Provincial Traffic Center in Katowice.

Traffic Laws

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1. A child under the age of 7 may use the road only under the supervision of a person who has reached the age of 10. This does not apply to the region where you live.

2. A child under the age of 15 traveling on a road outside built-up areas after dark must use reflective elements so that they are visible to other road users.

3. The provisions of par. 1 and 2 do not apply to a pedestrian-only road.

Piotr Wcisło, director of the Voivodship Traffic Center in Katowice

– It is necessary to start communicative education of children as early as possible so that they do not have to learn by trial and error. In difficult traffic situations, there is little intuition and good will. Children should be armed with knowledge of the rules of the road, safe behavior skills and habits, as well as the development of imagination, cause-and-effect thinking and discernment.

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